From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2002-04-24T02:15:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to convert between arrays and strings?

On 4/23/02 11:41 AM, "Matt Armstrong" <matt@lickey.com> wrote:

> Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This code will convert an array of characters to a string:
>> 
>>     a = [?a, ?b, ?c]
>>     s = ''
>>     for c in a
>>       s << c
>>     end
>> 
>> While it works, it isn't fast, in fact, it is *slow*.
> 
> I bet it is much faster in ruby 1.7 than 1.6, since String#<< is much
> faster in 1.7.

You might be right about that. I'm using 1.7 already.